The legalization of human rights [electronic resource] : multidisciplinary perspectives on human rights and human rights law / edited by Saladin Meckled-Garcia and Basak Cali.

Contributor(s): Meckled-Garcia, Saladin, 1968- | Cali, Basak, 1974- | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006Description: x, 208 p. : illSubject(s): Human rights | Human rights -- Psychological aspects | Human rights -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 342.08/5 LOC classification: K3240 | .L445 2006Other classification: 86.81 Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction : human rights legalized - defining, interpreting, and implementing an ideal / Basak Cali and Saladin Meckled-Garcia -- Lost in translation : the human rights ideal and international human rights law / Saladin Meckled-Garcia and Basak Cali -- The law cannot be enough : human rights and the limits of legalism / Anthony Woodiwiss -- Putting law in its place : an interdisciplinary evaluation of national amnesty laws / Michael Freeman -- The virtues of legalization / Jack Donnelly -- Is the legalization of human rights really the problem? : genocide in the Guatemalan Historical Clarification Commission / Richard Ashby Wilson -- Revisioning the role of law in women's human rights struggles / Ratna Kapur -- The bureaucratic gaze of international human rights law / David Chandler -- Verdictive discourses, shame and judicialization in pursuit of freedom of association rights / Edward Weisband -- From the theory of discovery to the theory of recognition of indigenous rights : conventional international law in search of homeopathy / Natalia Alvarez Molinero -- Politics of reading human rights : inclusion and exclusion within the production of human rights / Upendra Baxi.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : human rights legalized - defining, interpreting, and implementing an ideal / Basak Cali and Saladin Meckled-Garcia -- Lost in translation : the human rights ideal and international human rights law / Saladin Meckled-Garcia and Basak Cali -- The law cannot be enough : human rights and the limits of legalism / Anthony Woodiwiss -- Putting law in its place : an interdisciplinary evaluation of national amnesty laws / Michael Freeman -- The virtues of legalization / Jack Donnelly -- Is the legalization of human rights really the problem? : genocide in the Guatemalan Historical Clarification Commission / Richard Ashby Wilson -- Revisioning the role of law in women's human rights struggles / Ratna Kapur -- The bureaucratic gaze of international human rights law / David Chandler -- Verdictive discourses, shame and judicialization in pursuit of freedom of association rights / Edward Weisband -- From the theory of discovery to the theory of recognition of indigenous rights : conventional international law in search of homeopathy / Natalia Alvarez Molinero -- Politics of reading human rights : inclusion and exclusion within the production of human rights / Upendra Baxi.

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